On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, William Heindl wrote: >Thanks to all those who responded to my question about memory beyond >64Meg on an IBM 560Z Thinkpad. > >Thanks to the suggestions, I solved the problem by adding > >append="mem=130496k"
>I suspect the "best" solution would be to move up to a 2.2 based >kernel, but I just don't have the time, and this works. A 2.2 kernel will not solve this. I am running 2.2.14 on a Thinkpad 600E that I purchased in October (I think it's still a shipping model but it hasn't been the top of the line since about November 5). Today I received my 128M memory upgrade to give it 196M. I initially booted 2.2.14 with no parameters and it only recognised 64M. I had to specifically tell it the number of K in the way I advised you. I think that 2.3.x may fix this. But currently there is no ReiserFS driver for 2.3.x so none of my file systems would work on 2.3.x (my Thinkpad is an all-ReiserFS machine). >PS -- By the way, Russell, I really like the Thinkpads as well. I had >one with the "butterfly" style keyboard until it got stolen. That was Most people didn't seem to happy with the butterfly keyboard because they were apparently a bit fragile. Give me an elephant keyboard any day! ;) I've been pleased with the keyboard on my 600E. After 2.5 months of intensive use only one letter (the letter 'S') is starting to wear off the keyboard. With my old 380XD I had several keys wearing off after that amount of time. -- The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest. -- Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, U.S. District Judge
